149 Fun Facts About Friday the 13th

Which tongue-twisting word names the fear of Friday the 13th?

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is built from the Greek words for Friday and thirteen; fear of the number 13 alone is triskaidekaphobia.

One origin story for the Friday the 13th superstition is King Philip IV's mass arrest of which order in October 1307?

The Knights Templar were seized in their hundreds on Friday 13 October 1307 by a king who coveted their wealth; Grand Master Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake in 1314.

Which poet's 14th-century tale laments that 'on a Friday fell all this mischance', early evidence of the day's bad name?

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the line in The Canterbury Tales, more than four centuries before anyone is recorded pairing unlucky Friday with the number 13.

One telling of the unlucky-13 superstition casts which disciple as the 13th guest at the Last Supper?

Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is cast as the 13th guest in this telling, though the Bible says nothing about the seating order.

Which Italian opera composer died on Friday 13 November 1868, prompting an early English mention of the unlucky date?

Gioachino Rossini's 1869 biographer wrote that if he, like many Italians, thought Fridays and the number 13 unlucky, it was remarkable that he died on Friday 13 November.

In the 1907 novel Friday, the Thirteenth, a broker picks the date to cause what?

A market panic: Thomas Lawson's broker plays on the superstition to set off a Wall Street panic, and some credit the popular novel with spreading the fear of Friday the 13th.

Which asteroid is due to pass closer to Earth than many satellites on Friday 13 April 2029?

Apophis was briefly given a 2.7 percent chance of hitting Earth on that date when it was found in 2004; later tracking ruled an impact out, so it will be a close flyby instead.

A month contains a Friday the 13th whenever it starts on which day of the week?

A month has a Friday the 13th exactly when it begins on a Sunday, because the 13th falls twelve days after the 1st; every calendar year has at least one.

Which jazz pianist wrote the tune 'Friday the 13th' in the studio at a session held on that date in 1953?

Thelonious Monk wrote it on the spot at a Friday 13 November 1953 session with Sonny Rollins, and the ten-minute jam was used to fill out an album.

The Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute estimates US businesses lose roughly how much every Friday the 13th?

Donald Dossey's Stress Management Center and Phobia Institute put the loss at $800-900 million per Friday the 13th, claiming 17 to 21 million Americans are affected by the fear.

In Spanish-speaking countries and Greece, the unlucky 13th falls on which day of the week?

Tuesday the 13th is 'martes trece' in Spanish, and Greeks recall that Constantinople fell to the Fourth Crusade on Tuesday 13 April 1204.

Italians traditionally fear Friday falling on which date of the month instead of the 13th?

The 17th: one explanation is that its Roman numeral XVII can be rearranged to VIXI, Latin for 'I have lived', which is to say 'I am dead'.

Which elevator maker reported in 2002 that 85 percent of the tall buildings it served had no floor labelled 13?

Otis found the gap in its own records; most such towers simply call the 13th floor 14, so their 14th-floor tenants are really on the 13th.

Port Dover, Ontario, has drawn crowds every Friday the 13th since 1981 for a gathering of what?

Motorcyclists: the rally began on Friday 13 November 1981, when Chris Simons and about 25 friends met at a local hotel and decided to do it every time the date came round.

Which country's 'Tapaturmapäivä', a national accident-prevention day, always falls on a Friday the 13th?

Finland has held its National Accident Day on a Friday the 13th every year since 1995, which works because the calendar guarantees at least one such Friday a year.

Which businesses treat Friday the 13th as an unofficial holiday, offering cheap 'flash' designs featuring 13?

Tattoo parlours sell small '13' designs for about $13 in all-day flash sales; tattooists say the 13 works as a charm, since bad luck sees it is already there and passes by.

Which band's self-titled debut, released on Friday, February 13, 1970, is widely treated as the birth of heavy metal?

Black Sabbath recorded most of the album in a single 12-hour session, playing songs straight from their live set.

Which 2023 Netflix film retells the Andes plane crash of Friday 13 October 1972?

Society of the Snow follows the survivors' 72 days on the mountain, which ended only after two of them trekked for ten days across the Andes to find help.

Which rapper died on Friday, September 13, 1996, six days after being shot in Las Vegas?

Tupac Shakur had just watched a Mike Tyson fight at the MGM Grand when a gunman opened fire on him at a red light as he rode with Suge Knight; no one was charged with the murder until 2023.

Which understated line did Apollo 13's crew radio after an oxygen tank burst on 13 April 1970?

'Houston, we've had a problem' came from Jack Swigert about 200,000 miles from Earth; the crew survived by using their lunar module as a lifeboat for the trip home.

Which crooner's son Harry plays counselor Bill in the original Friday the 13th (1980)?

Bing Crosby's son Harry played Bill, who is later found pinned to a door with arrows.

Which future star played a counselor killed by an arrow through the throat in the original Friday the 13th (1980)?

Kevin Bacon sat on the floor under the bed with his head poking up through the mattress, so the arrow could pierce a prosthetic neck.

The original Friday the 13th's final scare, Jason lunging from the lake, was modelled on the ending of which movie?

Carrie: the makers wanted a last 'chair jumper' like the hand bursting from the grave in Brian De Palma's film, and the lake lunge gave the sequels their monster.

The original Friday the 13th was shot at a real Boy Scout camp, Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, in which state?

New Jersey: Camp No-Be-Bo-Sco, a working Boy Scout camp near Blairstown, hosted the September 1979 shoot and later opened its grounds for fan tours.

Composer Harry Manfredini built the films' 'ki ki ki, ma ma ma' whisper from which line of dialogue?

'Kill her, Mommy' is what Mrs. Voorhees chants in her son's voice in the final reel; Manfredini spoke 'ki' and 'ma' harshly into a microphone and added echo.

Where did screenwriter Victor Miller take the surname 'Voorhees' from?

A girl he knew at high school: Miller borrowed her surname Voorhees, while 'Jason' was a blend of his sons' names, Josh and Ian.

In Friday the 13th Part 2, what does Jason wear over his face?

A burlap sack hides his face in Part 2; the heroine briefly stops him by pulling on his dead mother's sweater and speaking as her.

Friday the 13th Part III (1982) was the only film in the series released in which format?

3-D: Paramount shot Part III with leased 3-D cameras, its first such production since 1954, and the crew's priority in every scene was making the effects work.

Jason's hockey mask was adapted from a goaltender mask of which NHL team?

Detroit Red Wings: the film's effects supervisor, a hockey fan, supplied the goalie mask for a lighting check, and the director loved it.

Which TV network gave Jason Voorhees a Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992?

MTV gave Jason the award at its 1992 Movie Awards, and later handed the same honour to Godzilla and Chewbacca.

In Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives, what brings Jason back from the dead?

A lightning strike: Tommy stabs the corpse with a metal fence post that lightning then hits, and from Jason Lives onward Jason is a supernatural revenant rather than a man.

In Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, heroine Tina accidentally revives Jason using what ability?

Telekinesis: Tina Shepard is trying to bring back her dead father when her powers wake Jason instead, and she turns them on him in the finale.

Which horror director took a cameo in Jason X as a doomed scientist?

David Cronenberg plays Dr. Wimmer, who wants Jason kept alive for research and is promptly killed when Jason breaks free.

Freddy vs. Jason ends with Jason walking out of Crystal Lake carrying what?

Krueger's severed head, which winks and laughs, leaving it unclear which of the two killers has really won.

Which Hong Kong-born director of Bride of Chucky made Freddy vs. Jason?

Ronny Yu directed Bride of Chucky in 1998, the film that turned the Child's Play series toward comedy, five years before he made the crossover.

The 2009 Friday the 13th reboot, released on Friday, February 13, starred which Supernatural actor as Clay Miller?

Jared Padalecki, Sam Winchester on Supernatural, played Clay Miller; the film opened to $40.6 million, then lost about 80 percent of that business in its second weekend.

Jason Voorhees became a downloadable guest fighter in which 2015 fighting game?

Mortal Kombat X added Jason in its first Kombat Pack, four years after the series had done the same with his old rival Freddy Krueger.

Friday the 13th: The Series, which ran for 72 episodes from 1987 to 1990 with no Jason in sight, was about what?

Cursed antiques: two cousins inherit a shop whose owner sold hexed objects under a pact with the Devil, and spend the series hunting them down.

Why did Friday the 13th: The Game stop receiving new content in 2018?

A rights lawsuit: screenwriter Victor Miller was fighting Sean Cunningham's side for the rights to the original film, so the publisher cancelled all planned additions in June 2018.

Before it named a slasher, 'Friday the 13th' was on Sean Cunningham's list of titles for what kind of film?

A children's soccer comedy: Cunningham wrote the title down while listing possible names for 1978's Manny's Orphans, a film about an orphanage team.

One origin story for unlucky 13 has which uninvited Norse god crash a dinner of twelve and have Balder killed?

Loki, the trickster, crashes the feast in this telling and has the blind god Höðr kill Balder with mistletoe.

Which royal residence was bombed on Friday 13 September 1940 with the King and Queen inside?

Buckingham Palace was hit while George VI and Queen Elizabeth were in residence; the Queen said she was glad, because now she could 'look the East End in the face'.

Which Australian state's 'Black Friday' bushfires burned on Friday 13 January 1939?

Victoria: the Black Friday fires of 13 January 1939 killed 71 people and burned almost two million hectares, prompting a royal commission that reshaped the state's forest management.

What is the longest possible gap between two Fridays the 13th?

14 months: every calendar year has at least one Friday the 13th, so the worst case runs from July to September of the next year, as in 2018-19.

A Friday the 13th in which month can be followed by another the very next month?

February: in a non-leap year it lasts exactly four weeks, so March repeats its weekdays and a Friday the 13th comes round again after the shortest possible gap.

On average, about how often does a Friday the 13th come round?

Every 7 months: the 13th falls on a Friday slightly more often than on any other weekday, 688 times in the calendar's 400-year cycle.

The 'Friday the 13th mini-crash' of October 1989 followed a failed buyout of which airline?

United Airlines: when financing for the $6.75 billion UAL buyout collapsed on Friday 13 October 1989, the Dow fell 190 points, about 6.9 percent, in what was dubbed the Friday the 13th mini-crash.

Which revolutionary leader was born on Friday 13 August 1926?

Fidel Castro proved hard to kill: Cuban intelligence counted 638 plots against him, from exploding cigars to a poisoned diving suit, yet he lived to 90.

A much-quoted 1993 study of Friday the 13th road accidents near London appeared in which medical journal?

The BMJ study found hospital admissions for transport accidents up by as much as 52 percent on the 13th, but its authors never meant the conclusion to be taken seriously.

Insurers in which country reported in 2008 that Fridays the 13th bring fewer accidents than other Fridays?

Netherlands: Dutch insurers averaged about 7,500 traffic accidents on Fridays the 13th against 7,800 on other Fridays, though their own statistician doubted that extra caution was the reason.

Which former child-star twins were born on Friday 13 June 1986?

Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen began playing Michelle Tanner on Full House at nine months old, taking turns in the single role.

Greek superstition puts its unlucky weekday, the day Constantinople fell in 1453, under which god's influence?

Ares, god of war, known to the Romans as Mars, is said to dominate the day, and Greeks recall that Constantinople fell on it in both 1204 and 1453.

Which Irish playwright was born on Good Friday, 13 April 1906?

Samuel Beckett, author of Waiting for Godot, joined the French Resistance in wartime Paris, fled when the Gestapo arrested members of his group, and was later awarded the Croix de Guerre.

Betsy Palmer said she agreed to play the killer in the original Friday the 13th only because she needed a new what?

Car: her Mercedes had broken down, and ten days' work at $1,000 a day would pay for the Volkswagen Scirocco she wanted, even though she thought the script was dreadful.

Which Reservoir Dogs actor was born on Friday 13 December 1957?

Steve Buscemi, Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, spent four years as a New York City firefighter before acting, and went back to his old engine company to help after 9/11.

In Jason Goes to Hell, what is Creighton Duke, who knows how to kill Jason?

A bounty hunter: Creighton Duke trades what he knows to the hero in a jail cell, but only after being allowed to break the man's fingers as payment.

Which counselor kills the murderer at the end of the original Friday the 13th?

Alice Hardy, the sole survivor, does not last long: she is killed with an ice pick in the opening minutes of Part 2.

Which final girl slams a machete into Jason's shoulder in Part 2?

Ginny Field, a child-psychology student, first stalls Jason by pulling on his dead mother's sweater and speaking to him as her.

In Friday the 13th Part III, Chris Higgins seemingly kills Jason with what?

An axe to the head leaves Jason for dead, yet The Final Chapter opens with his body reviving in the hospital morgue.

In Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, the copycat killer turns out to have which job?

A paramedic: Roy Burns is called to the halfway house where his own son has been murdered, goes insane and takes up Jason's mask for revenge.

How does Tommy leave Jason at the end of Jason Lives?

Chained to a boulder in the lake: Tommy lures Jason into the water and anchors him to the bottom, and Megan finishes the job with the boat's propeller.

How is Jason finally destroyed at the end of Jason Takes Manhattan?

Melted by toxic waste flooding the sewer at midnight, after the heroine throws a vat of it in his face; he had already shrugged off the subway's third rail.

Which relative stabs Jason with a mystical dagger in Jason Goes to Hell?

His niece Jessica Kimble: only a Voorhees by blood can kill him, and Jessica drives the mystical dagger into his heart, sending him to Hell.

How do scientists finally stop Jason at the start of Jason X?

Cryonic freezing: after repeated executions fail, Rowan LaFontaine lures Jason into a cryo-pod, but he punctures it and both stay frozen for more than four centuries.

Whom does Freddy Krueger resurrect Jason to terrorise in Freddy vs. Jason?

The residents of Springwood: Freddy needs the town to fear him again so he can invade their dreams, but Jason refuses to stop killing once unleashed.

In 2009's Friday the 13th, why does Jason kidnap Whitney instead of killing her?

She resembles his mother when young: Jason kills her friends but keeps Whitney captive, and her brother Clay comes looking for her six weeks later.

Which Wes Craven film had Sean Cunningham worked on before Friday the 13th?

The Last House on the Left (1972): Cunningham produced Craven's debut, but wanted Friday to be a 'roller coaster ride' rather than another Last House.

What was Victor Miller's working title while drafting the first Friday the 13th script?

A Long Night at Camp Blood was Miller's working title; Cunningham believed in the 'Friday the 13th' name and rushed an ad into Variety before checking whether the title was clear.

What did the original Friday the 13th logo, made for a 1979 trade-paper ad, show?

Letters smashing through glass: Cunningham had a New York ad agency design big block letters bursting through a pane, then ran the ad before a script existed.

Which blockbuster director's company, Platinum Dunes, produced the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot?

Michael Bay's Platinum Dunes had already remade The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in 2003, and New Line asked the same team to restart Jason the same way.

Who directed both Friday the 13th Part 2 and Part III?

Steve Miner had been associate producer on the original, and later swapped Jason for Michael Myers by directing Halloween H20.

Which city substituted for most of the New York scenes in Jason Takes Manhattan?

Vancouver doubled for New York's back alleys, and only a few scenes, including the Times Square chase, were shot in the real city.

Which Wes Craven film delayed the Freddy–Jason crossover by drawing him back to the studio?

New Nightmare (1994): Wes Craven's return to make it put the crossover on hold, so Cunningham made Jason Goes to Hell first.

New Line reportedly spent roughly how much on Freddy vs. Jason scripts alone before filming began?

$6 million went on drafts from a string of writers, a fifth of the $30 million the finished film cost to make.

Which director of the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake was hired for the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot?

Marcus Nispel had made the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake for the same producers, who wanted to rework the mythology of the first four films instead of adding another numbered sequel.

Which Friday the 13th film's self-aware humour is credited with prefiguring the Scream films?

Part VI: Jason Lives keeps breaking the fourth wall to joke about its own formula, a decade before Scream built a whole film on the same self-awareness.

In Jason Lives, Jason ambushes a group of executives playing which game in the woods?

Paintball: Jason kills all five players in a corporate team-building game and takes a machete from one of them along the way.

Which Christopher Nolan film did one studio buy into in 2013 by handing its Friday the 13th rights to a rival?

Interstellar: the rival that took the Friday the 13th rights in the June 2013 trade kept rescheduling a new film and never released one before the rights reverted in 2018.

In Part III, which weapon does Jason fire at Vera in his first kill wearing the hockey mask?

A speargun: Jason walks out of the barn in the mask he has just taken from Shelly and shoots Vera in the eye as she reaches under the dock for a wallet.

Under what original title was Friday the 13th: The Series created?

The 13th Hour was the working title; Frank Mancuso Jr. swapped in the Friday the 13th name purely to help sell the show to stations, though it shared no story with the films.

The actor who played Ryan in Friday the 13th: The Series later starred in which Jason film?

Jason Goes to Hell (1993) cast John D. LeMay as its hero Steven Freeman, who fights Jason to save his infant daughter, three years after the unconnected TV show ended.

In which city was Friday the 13th: The Series filmed?

Toronto hosted the shoot, and the show did so well in its original late-night slot that some stations moved it to prime time.

Which sitcom joked about "Friday the 13th part 1649" in a 1988 episode?

Red Dwarf: the gag appears in 'Better Than Life', a 1988 series-two episode set three million years in the future.

Which studio produced the Peacock prequel series Crystal Lake, announced in 2022?

A24 is the studio behind Crystal Lake, and in 2024 it replaced the prequel's first showrunner to take the series in a different direction.

Which showrunner was fired from Crystal Lake in 2024 before Brad Caleb Kane took over?

Bryan Fuller, the creator of Hannibal, was removed in May 2024 when the producers chose to take the series in a different direction; Brad Caleb Kane replaced him as showrunner.

Which actress was cast as Pamela Voorhees in the prequel series Crystal Lake?

Linda Cardellini, of Freaks and Geeks and Dead to Me, was cast as Pamela Voorhees, the mother whose revenge sets the whole franchise in motion.

Which thriller's unseen-menace motif inspired Harry Manfredini's approach to scoring the original Friday the 13th?

Jaws: as John Williams's theme stood in for the unseen shark, Manfredini let the music stand in for Mrs. Voorhees, who only appears in the final reel.

Which composer's chorus with "striking pronunciations" inspired the "ki ki ki, ma ma ma" sound?

Krzysztof Penderecki: Manfredini borrowed the idea from a Penderecki choral piece with 'striking pronunciations', then spoke the syllables harshly into a mic and ran them through an echo machine.

Where did Harry Manfredini record the original Friday the 13th score?

In a friend's basement, after writing the score in about two weeks; Manfredini says everybody still mishears its whispered motif as 'cha, cha, cha'.

Part III opens with the Friday the 13th theme rescored in which musical style?

Disco: Michael Zager rebuilt the theme around a dance beat at his apartment, and the track was credited to a fictional band called Hot Ice.

In Freddy vs. Jason, which fear of Jason's does Freddy exploit in the dream world?

Drowning: Freddy drags Jason's dream back to the day he went into the lake as a boy and tries to drown him all over again.

Which horror hero was set to join a Freddy vs. Jason sequel before it collapsed?

Ash Williams: Bruce Campbell and New Line could not agree on Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, and the story became a 2007 comic series instead.

Which network developed a Friday the 13th TV series in 2015 before dropping it as unsustainable?

The CW: network president Mark Pedowitz said the script made a very good pilot but would not be a sustainable series, and the project was dropped.

In Part III, what is Andy doing when Jason slices him in half with a machete?

Walking on his hands: Andy is upside down in the house when the machete splits him in half, and Jason then turns on Debbie as she rests in a hammock.

Which studio handled the original Friday the 13th outside North America?

Warner Bros. released the 1980 film overseas; for the 2009 reboot the roles flipped, with the same company handling North America and its old partner the rest of the world.

The original opened on May 9, 1980; which sequel was the first released on a Friday the 13th?

Part III opened on Friday, August 13, 1982, and the trick stuck: The Final Chapter, The New Blood and the 2009 reboot were among the later entries to open on a Friday the 13th too.

Which critic branded Sean Cunningham "one of the most despicable creatures" in film?

Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune went further still: he printed the address of the releasing studio's parent-company chairman and urged readers to write in with their contempt.

How does Jason kill Julius in Jason Takes Manhattan?

Punches his head off: Julius, a student boxer, exhausts himself landing blow after blow on a rooftop while Jason simply takes them, then loses his head to a single punch.

Part 2 was originally intended to be what kind of film?

A superstition-themed anthology was the first idea, with no returning story; the popularity of the original's surprise ending persuaded the filmmakers to go back to Crystal Lake instead.

Whose severed head does the original Friday the 13th's survivor find in her fridge at the start of Part 2?

Jason's mother's: two months after the first film's events the survivor opens her fridge to find Pamela Voorhees's head, and is killed with an ice pick moments later.

Which character from the original Friday the 13th returns in Part 2, played again by Walt Gorney?

Crazy Ralph, who warned the first film's counsellors of a 'death curse', wanders back in Part 2 and is garroted from behind a tree while watching the new arrivals.

Which blockbuster did Part III knock off the top of the box office in August 1982?

E.T.: Part III opened at No. 1 in August 1982, ending E.T.'s run at the top, and grossed $36.7 million on a $2.2 million budget despite negative reviews.

Why was Part III's original plan to focus on Part 2's survivor abandoned?

Amy Steel declined to return, so the planned story of Part 2's traumatised survivor was dropped and Part III began again with a new heroine, Chris Higgins.

Unlike its two predecessors, Part III was filmed in which state?

California: Part III was shot at the Valuzet Movie Ranch in Saugus over several months in spring 1982, in what was planned as the last film of a trilogy.

Who directed The Final Chapter (1984)?

Joseph Zito, who had made The Prowler, directed; Tom Savini returned to help kill off the character he had helped create.

Which future Back to the Future actor appears in The Final Chapter?

Crispin Glover played Jimmy a year before becoming George McFly; his character goes downstairs for a bottle of wine and Jason pins his hand down with a corkscrew.

Why did producer Frank Mancuso Jr. want The Final Chapter to be the last Friday the 13th?

He felt nobody respected his work on the films, however much they earned, and wanted to pursue other projects; the studio agreed, yet a fifth film followed a year later.

Which book detailed the rampant behind-the-scenes drug use on A New Beginning?

Crystal Lake Memories, Peter Bracke's history of the series, describes a production plagued by drug use, and in 2013 it became a documentary covering every film.

Which future Scandal star made his screen debut in Jason Lives?

Tony Goldwyn, later President Fitzgerald Grant on Scandal, made his film debut as Darren, a camp supervisor whom the newly risen Jason impales on a fence post.

Which rocker recorded 'He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)' for Jason Lives?

Alice Cooper was mounting a comeback of his own: 'He's Back (The Man Behind the Mask)', the film's theme song, was the lead single of Constrictor, his first album in three years.

In Jason Lives, what new name has Camp Crystal Lake taken to escape its past?

Camp Forest Green: the whole community has renamed itself to shake off the Jason legend, and this time children really are arriving at the camp when he returns.

Which Weekend at Bernie's actor appears in The New Blood?

Terry Kiser, a year before playing the corpse in Weekend at Bernie's, is Dr. Crews, a psychiatrist who claims to be treating his teenage patient while using her for his own ends.

How did Tina Shepard's father die in The New Blood's prologue?

She collapsed the dock and he drowned after a family row at the lake; years later her guilt brings her back there, where she frees Jason instead of raising her father.

What did Jason slash through in Jason Takes Manhattan's retracted marketing image?

The "I Love New York" logo: New York officials protested that it was a protected trademark, and the studio withdrew the poster.

In Jason X, which substance does Jason use for his first kill aboard the spaceship?

Liquid nitrogen: Jason comes back to life in the ship's lab, plunges an intern's face into a sink of it, then smashes her frozen head to pieces on the counter.

How is Jason killed at the start of Jason Goes to Hell?

Blown apart in an FBI ambush: an undercover agent lures him into the open at Crystal Lake, and a coroner later eats his still-beating heart, letting Jason's spirit take over a new body.

What nickname did the Jason X crew give its rebuilt cyborg killer?

Uber Jason was the art team and crew's name for the cyborg rebuilt by a nanotech medical station after an android blasts the original apart; later tie-in comics adopted it.

Which Destiny's Child singer stars in Freddy vs. Jason?

Kelly Rowland plays Kia, who distracts Freddy so that her friends can get away and is killed by Jason moments later.

Which Goonies star played young Tommy in The Final Chapter?

Corey Feldman played Tommy, a boy who makes his own monster masks, a year before The Goonies, and returned for a cameo in A New Beginning.

Which actor plays Jason in the 2009 Friday the 13th reboot?

Derek Mears, who stands 6 ft 5 in, played a Jason who moves through a network of tunnels beneath the camp and keeps one victim alive there.

In the original Friday the 13th, what were the counsellors doing when young Jason died?

Making love: Mrs. Voorhees blames the counsellors who slipped away instead of watching her son, and that grievance is her motive for every killing in the film.

Which Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actress played Pamela in the 2009 reboot?

Nana Visitor, Kira Nerys on Deep Space Nine, plays Pamela in the reboot's 1980 prologue, where the young Jason watches a counsellor behead her.

How does young Tommy distract Jason in The Final Chapter's climax?

He shaves his head to resemble Jason as a boy, copying a picture in a news clipping; the sight stops Jason long enough for Tommy's sister to strike.

Which developer made Friday the 13th: The Game (2017)?

IllFonic built the game for publisher Gun Media, having started it as an unlicensed project called Slasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp before the real licence came through.

Which character can a counselor player unlock and control in Friday the 13th: The Game?

Tommy Jarvis: once someone radios for help, a player who has already died or escaped can return as Tommy, whose help the others need if they want to kill Jason outright.

Which two companies made the notorious 1989 NES Friday the 13th game?

Atlus and LJN: Atlus built the game for publisher LJN and gave Jason a purple suit he never wears on film, a look NECA turned into an action figure in 2013.

Cabin fights with Jason in the 1989 NES game play like which other NES title?

Punch-Out: step inside a cabin and the side-scrolling view gives way to a face-to-face bout with Jason in the style of Nintendo's boxing game.

Which tarot trump card is numbered 13 in several variants?

Death: trump XIII is the Death card in most tarot decks, and the Tarot of Marseilles often prints it with no name at all.

Per an old superstition, what fate awaits one of any 13 people who sit down at a table together?

Death within a year: the old warning is that when thirteen sit down together, one will die within the year, a belief some link to the thirteen at the Last Supper.

Which upstate New York university counts 13 as lucky because 13 men founded it with $13 and 13 prayers?

Colgate: tradition says thirteen men founded it with thirteen dollars and thirteen prayers, and its campus address today is 13 Oak Drive.

Besides labelling it "14", how else do buildings commonly disguise a 13th floor?

Calling it 12A or M: M is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, so a floor marked M is 13 in disguise; some buildings simply make it a mechanical floor.

Ireland altered 2013 vehicle plates to read what, to reassure superstitious buyers?

131 and 132: Ireland split the 2013 registration into two codes, 131 for the first half of the year and 132 for the second, sidestepping a plain '13' plate.

Which astronaut was dropped from Apollo 13's crew days before its 13:13 launch?

Ken Mattingly was grounded days before the 13:13 Central-time launch after exposure to German measles, which he never caught; Jack Swigert took his seat.

Besides Jason, which horror icon did Kane Hodder physically portray in a 1990 sequel's stunts?

Leatherface: Hodder was the stunt double for Leatherface in 1990's Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III, and also played Freddy Krueger's clawed hand at the end of Jason Goes to Hell.

Which horror series stars Kane Hodder as Victor Crowley?

Hatchet: Hodder plays the deformed swamp hermit Victor Crowley under heavy makeup, in a series that makes a point of casting the actors behind other slasher icons.

On which game show was Betsy Palmer a long-time panelist?

I've Got a Secret: Palmer became a regular panelist in 1958 and stayed until the original run ended in 1967; the wholesome TV regular later said she had become the 'queen of the slashers'.

Why did Adrienne King retreat from acting after Part 2?

A stalker broke into her home after harassing her for a year, so King moved off camera into voice-looping work and did not act on screen again for three decades.

On which 1990s soap did Adrienne King work for seven seasons as an ADR looper?

Melrose Place: as an ADR looper King re-recorded dialogue in post-production, work that kept her in Hollywood for three decades without appearing on screen.

In Jason Takes Manhattan, what does Jason use to kill aspiring rock star J.J. aboard the ship?

Her own guitar: Jason has stowed away on the students' cruise to New York, and J.J. is the first passenger he kills on board.

What single question was Ari Lehman asked at his audition to play young Jason?

"Can you swim?" was the one key question at his audition, since the role meant bursting out of Crystal Lake for the film's closing scare.

What is the name of Ari Lehman's punk-metal band aimed at horror fans?

First Jason takes its name from Lehman's status as the first actor to play the character; before the band he was an award-winning teenage jazz pianist.

Which horror remake did Tom Savini, the original Friday the 13th's effects artist, direct in 1990?

Night of the Living Dead: George Romero rewrote his own 1968 script for the remake and handed the directing to Savini, who had never directed a feature before.

Which classic horror actor inspired a young Tom Savini to take up makeup effects?

Lon Chaney: seeing the 1957 biopic Man of a Thousand Faces, with James Cagney as Chaney, set the young Savini on the path to makeup effects.

Which pop superstar has made prominent use of 13 as a lucky number throughout her career?

Taylor Swift, born on December 13, used to perform with a 13 drawn on her hand; quarterback Dan Marino wore the number too, and the Dolphins retired it.

Which horror novelist is counted among the famous sufferers of triskaidekaphobia, the fear of 13?

Stephen King is in notable company: the composer Arnold Schoenberg dreaded the number 13 and died on a Friday the 13th, in July 1951.

The opening ceremony of which Summer Olympics fell on Friday 13 August 2004?

Athens opened its Games on Friday 13 August 2004 under the motto 'Welcome Home', as the Olympics returned to the city that staged the first modern Games in 1896.

The Costa Concordia ran aground on Friday, 13 January 2012 off which Italian island?

Isola del Giglio: the Costa Concordia struck rocks off Giglio in Tuscany with 3,206 passengers and 1,023 crew aboard, on the first leg of a cruise from Civitavecchia; 32 people died.

At the superstition-mocking Thirteen Club's first dinner in 1880s New York, the lobster salad was moulded into what shape?

A coffin: the thirteen diners walked under a ladder into Room 13 and ate thirteen courses, the lobster salad shaped like a coffin, beneath a banner reading 'Morituri te Salutamus'.

Which stuntman played Jason in Friday the 13th Part III, the film where the hockey mask debuts?

Richard Brooker, a British stuntman, was the first actor to wear the hockey mask in the role; Jason takes it from Shelly, the group's prankster, and Ted White took over for The Final Chapter.